The Daily Mississippian - March 22, 2017

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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Volume 105, No. 108

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Women must unite in the fight for equal rights

Student production sheds light on race, sisterhood

Ole Miss falls to Memphis 2-1 in 11th inning

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Thirty-three Associated Student Body senators passed eight new bills and resolutions Tuesday night at the final senate meeting of the spring semester, raising the minimum GPA requirement and establishing a bias orientation for senators.

Members of the Committee on Inclusion presented several of pieces of legislation Tuesday night, and the Committee on Academics argued on the floor for their first official resolution. After all legislation made its way through the floor, the Senate moved to nominate their candidates for Senator of the Year.

Senator Terrius Harris presented a bill that would raise the GPA requirement for ASB senators to a 2.75 and re-clarify other aspects of senator requirements. Harris said senators who were elected under the current 2.5 GPA requirement would not be affected by the bill until spring REBELS FALL OUT OF NIT SEMIFINALS WITH 74-66 LOSS TO GEORGIA TECH re-election.

Senator Allen Coon spoke SEE PAGE 8 FOR STORY in favor of the bill after three senators’ opposition and a claim that the GPA requirePHOTO BY: CAMERON BROOKS Freshman Breein Tyree shoots a lay-up during Ole Miss’ game against Georgia Tech in the National Invitation Tournament ment was chosen arbitrarily. at the Pavilion. Georgia Tech defeated Ole Miss 74-66.

“Since this is my last meeting as a senator here, I’m going to be extremely frank,” Coon said. “I find it laughable

Isom Center’s ‘Sarah Talks’ discusses gender fluidity today KRISTEN MCGILL KAILEN LOCKE

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The third and final Sarah Talk of the year will discuss a study regarding how students view those with different sexual orientations, and the change of students’ attitudes to gender and sexuality over time at 4 p.m.

Wednesday in Lamar 320.

The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies

has has hosted two previous Sarah Talks focusing on community members in the Oxford area. The upcoming talk will be a classroom-style presentation according to Isom Center Director Jamie Harker.

“This one is about a research project,” Harker said. “You’ve got biology, psychology, and English all talking about a joint project that we are working on.”

Psychology professor Kate

Kellum, graduate student Yash Bhambhani and biology professor Lainy Day are working on the research project along with Harker, and will join her for the panel discussion.

Harker said she hopes people get a sense of how much more complicated gender is than many people tend to think it is.

“What’s interesting is

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and offensive that some senators in this room find this bill exclusionary in any way.”

The bill passed unanimously.

Senator Levi Bevis presented his bill aimed at clarifying the differences between major and minor campaign violations and defining terms like “meeting’” and “word-ofmouth campaigning” during student elections.

“Most of these are simple clarifications just to make the whole process a little more simple with more clarified defections,” Bevis said.

Freshman senator Taylor Story voiced concern about the bill. Story said the section of the bill that outlines the definitions of major and minor offenses should be re-written to provide more clarity.

After deliberation, the senate voted 20-14-0 to pass Bevis’ bill.

Vice President elect Elam Miller authored a bill to reestablish the legislative council’s duties. Miller said the bill would create a chief-ofstaff position, among others in the council, to ease the Vice President’s daily workload.

“I want to make sure the executive offices are reaching out to senators and every-

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Vice President-elect Elam Miller presents a bill he authored to reestablish the legislative council’s duties. The bill would create a chief-of-staff position.

OPINION

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COLUMN

Did A Day Without Women really make a difference?

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Women’s passion for equality and a true voice ravaged the country back in January. Even in our tiny, little corner of the world here in Oxford, women’s voices were finally heard … for one day.

However, the next week, it was if nothing happened and our rage was all for nothing.

This is because even in today’s day and age, women’s voices are not perceived.

They may be heard in the moment, but rarely are they truly remembered.

To break this reasoning down, think of all the great civil rights leaders that are remembered today. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are the major ones that come to mind.

Sojourner Truth, famous poet responsible for “Ain’t I A Woman” that challenged race’s role in the women’s rights movement and Septima Poinsette Clark, who was often called the “queen mother” of

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the movement, are often overlooked.

Both are of the many women that were put on the backburner to men when it comes to accreditations in the movement.

Our words are easily forgotten compared to men’s, but is that the only reason our current fight for equality is not working?

A second nationwide protest was expected to bring major attention to the current movement for gender equality. The “Day Without a Woman” protest took place on March 6 and asked women around the country to skip work and refrain from spending money.

The point of the movement

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related to the fact that most women are part of an economic backbone for their families. A woman who is a major player in her family’s financial stability could not just take a day off from work without suffering some sort of consequence.

Although one must agree that fighting for human rights should have constituted taking a personal day, as women we should remember that to take a stand against sexism we must unite, no matter what we may lose.

Mikala Turner is a sophomore social work major from Bruce.

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was to show the world what it would be like without the economic contribution of women.

Riding on the back of the success of the women’s marches, this protest was expected to be huge.

However, the expectations became a sizzle instead of a spark.

It has been said that the lack of involvement in this movement is due to women’s denial of an equality problem.

This ideology is basically on the same level as the Women for Trump campaign leaders who said that Trump’s “locker room talk” did not make him sexist.

Understandably, this dwindle in support was

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continued from page 1 when you think about science or biology you think about it as being very straight forward—you’re a man or you’re a woman,” Harker said. “But when you hear Dr. Day talking about gender, it’s much more complicated, there are so many more ranges. We stop and say wait a minute, do I know what science actually says?”

Day’s goal of the project is to see if teaching about physiological components will be what helps students understand that people are born the way they are born, and that there is a huge amount of variation for everybody, she said.

“When you explain that gender and orientation are fluid, you say you don’t want to label people—you want to understand people,” Day said. “I think that goes a long way.”

According to Bhambhani, the study will be separated into three data points that will be tracked over the course of the semester.

This will be a design similar to an intervention where the thoughts, feelings and behaviors will be measured before, during and after the project is complete.

Kellum said there will be a variety of classes that will approach this topic differently. They will observe if it changes the way people view or act towards people who

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“I think all professors know that when we are teaching whatever our subject is that we are influencing not only people’s content knowledge, but their thoughts and feelings about those things,” Kellum said.

“We are presenting a way that people can measure that to help professors see that we are teaching all kinds of stuff when we are teaching.”

Harker said partnership with students is a big part of the project.

“We’re doing surveys of our students in various classes, so students in a very real sense are building this scholarship,” Harker said.

“They are helping us understand it.”

Harker said she is excited to work with experts from different fields to put everything together and see the different ways they can learn about this subject.

“I hope you get a sense, even in terms of brain theory and science, that there’s a lot we don’t know,” Harker said. “There’s a lot more range and variety than we usually give credit for.”

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one on campus,” Miller said.

“I want the chief-of-staff to work with legislative council to make sure they are carrying out their function.”

During the period of debate over the bill, Bevis and Story spoke in affirmation of the bill while senator Allison Hanby spoke against certain aspects because of already overcrowded meetings.

Senator Elizabeth Romary said the bill would streamline some of the vice president’s duties. The bill passed unanimously.

Secretary Austin Spindler presented a bill with Harris that would re-define the description of the secretary position and the requirements to run for the office. Spindler said as current secretary he believes since the position works with both the legislative and executive branches, it should be open to members of both. That bill, too, passed unanimously.

The Committee on Academics presented a resolution that would uphold the university’s policy of keeping buildings such as Hume and Lamar Hall open 24 hours This article was submit- during exam week. The bill ted to The Daily Mississip- passed with no naysayers. pian from an advanced reSenator Zach DiGregorio porting class. presented a resolution he

authored to institute an orientation seminar for ASB members aimed at lessening the effects of ideological differences on legislation in the senate.

“It may seem redundant, but we wouldn’t have written this legislation if it wasn’t necessary,” Hanby said.

Senator Emily Hoffman supported the resolution, saying the training could show senators how to represent the interests of the student body before their own and how to best practice respectful debate.

“The presentation of strong beliefs can interfere with the passage of legislation,” the resolution says.

Senator Dylan Wood motioned to postpone debate on the legislation; the senate struck the motion down. DiGregorio continued to support his legislation and after

further debate, the resolution passed with a vote of 31-3-0.

Harris also authored two more resolutions. The first resolution would officially recognize ASB’s 100-year anniversary, and the second resolution would promote the LiveSafe app through ASB. After limited debate, both resolutions passed with unanimous consent.

Senators Hanby, Harris, Hoffman and Romary received nominations for Senator of the Year, and exited the room for a period of debate over the nominees.

The ASB senate voted silently for the Senator of the Year, and will announce the winner at their annual banquet.

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Student production interprets race, sisterhood The play was written as a choreopoem, an anthology of olmorgan@go.olemiss.edu poems intended for performance, by Ntozake Shange Members of the student-led and debuted off-broadway in Ghostlight Reperatory Theatre 1973.

In an article for Ebony Maghave been logging long hours azine celebrating the play’s in rehearsal for this week’s 40th anniversary, Shange production of “For Colored credited the dedication of Girls Who Have Considered women of color for keeping Suicide/When the Rainbow is her stories alive.

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“Sisterhood is important The production has been because we are all we have to a work in progress since the stand on,” the poet told Eblast spring, and in the direcony.

“We have to stand near tor’s seat is Tysianna Jones, a and by each other, pray for 21-year-old theatre arts major one another and share the joys from Brandon. Jones has been and difficulties that women involved in theatre for 11 years face in the world today.” and has participated in proSince its initial run, the play ductions during all four years has garnered a Tony Award of her studies here at the UniPHOTO BY: ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA for its Broadway run in 1977. versity of Mississippi.

She was inspired to stage In 2010 Tyler Perry wrote, di- Cast members gather at the table to discuss problems women of color face every day.

She said she hopes students the play by her mother, who rected and produced a mod- includes seven women and “There will be laughing and ern adaptation simply titled, four men of color, all mem- will want to take advantage of crying, singing and dancing raised her as a single parent.

“The importance of Afri- “For Colored Girls” based on bers of the university’s student this opportunity to become fa- while educating the audience body. miliar with this powerful sto- on rape culture, HIV/AIDs can-American women’s nar- Shange’s work.

The story is told as 20 sepaPortraying the Woman in ry and gain knowledge about awareness, domestic abuse ratives to be told by a cast of women with the same traits rate poems, enunciated by the Red in this week’s production different aspects of life beyond and more,” Jones said. will open the university’s eyes different colors of the rainbow is Terrye Davis, a junior Busi- what they might normally see.

She said she feels the most “This play would enlighten rewarding part of the process to issues surrounding women represented by ladies in Red, ness Management major from of color who can’t escape cer- Blue, Purple, Yellow, Brown, Greenwood. “For Colored so many individuals on this so far has been watching her Green and Orange. The cast Girls” is her first foray in to campus of all races and gen- cast develop and grow with tain circumstances,” she said. collegiate theatre arts, but she ders. It would create the space their characters. has participated in elementary for uncomfortable conversa“I have witnessed many school and church plays. tion, which is always neces- breakthroughs during re“I ran across the flyer for au- sary,” Davis said. hearsal, and as a director, it’s ditions and mustered up the Over the course of the play the most beautiful thing to courage to go for it, because these women will tackle a watch,” she said.

I’m always wanting to try new range of issues such as domesDavis said she enjoyed things,” she said. tic violence, sexual assault and bonding with her fellow castShe said she’s excited about abortion. mates and being positively inthe production because it Jones said she feels all of fluenced and motivated by her gives her a chance to portray a these topics are especially peers. strong, yet complicated char- relevant and that it is always “They’ve become my family acter. important to educate on wom- and have made this experi“It gives me the opportu- en’s rights. Even though she ence more than I could have nity to stand as a representa- said she is a bit apprehen- ever imagined,” Jones said. tion of women who struggle sive about the reaction to a The group will open the curwith channeling their inner controversial play performed tains for their first public peremotions and who sometimes by an all-black cast on a rel- formance at 7:30 p.m. tonight make the wrong choices while atively conservative campus in the Meek Theatre. Tickets attempting to neglect who such as Ole Miss, she said she are $10. The show will run evthey actually are within, and feels like the representation of ery night Wednesday through PHOTO BY: ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA they way they’d have other these issues outweighs the risk Saturday, including a matinee Zane Edwards and Serenity Jones rehearse their lines minutes before the first perceive them,” she said. of backlash. at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. dress rehearsal of the “For Colored Girls” play.

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The Ole Miss Rebels are getting back into the flow of things after a week off for spring break.

“I’m not much into excuses right now that they give, I don’t want to hear anybody talking about stuff,” Freeze said. “I just want to see them preform and somebody fight through and take a leadership role.”

The team will look to quarterback Shea Patterson for a leadership role this year. Although he is only coming into the season as a sophomore, Patterson has high expectations for next year, and his teammates and coaches believe in him to the fullest extent.

“Shea has great leadership, he’s done a great job from that point on to here,” offensive lineman Javon Patterson said. “He took that role and he’s done a great job being vocal.”

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landshark defense.”

Freeze seemed pleased with some of his new additions to the coaching staff so far this spring.

He praised Wesley McGriff, Freddie Roach and Bradley Dale Peveto as key components to getting the defense back to where it needs to be.

“McGriff, Freddie and Peveto have brought great energy to that side for sure, that’s an area we have to improve on,” Freeze said. “Just trying to create correct habits and a correct mentality is what I’m really looking forward to in spring.”

The players might enter next season with a chip on their shoulder after the university self-imposed a bowl ban for next year. Although they will not be eligible to play in the post-season, the players along with the coaches are keeping a good attitude about the situation.

“The attitude has been great, phenomenal really. Everyone is staying positive and keeping the energy,” Haynes said. “We’ve moved way beyond that.”

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terback out of high school. He was thrust into the starting role after a season-ending injury to former quarterback Chad Kelly, and did a respectable job behind center considering Freeze was forced to pull his redshirt with only a few games left in the season. Now as the starting quarterback, Shea will be expected to fill the shoes of one of the best quarterbacks in Ole Miss history.

“When he understands exactly what going on he’s really good,” Freeze said. “Still there’s a percentage of things he’s questioning, but I think he will have it down by the end of our practices.”

Marquis Haynes is returning for his senior season as a Rebel.

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Memphis Tigers top Ole Miss 2-1 in extra innings BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE thedmsports@gmail.com

Memphis sophomore Jonathan Bowlan stifled the Ole Miss offense on Tuesday night. The right-hander tossed eight innings of scoreless baseball before surrendering a run in the ninth to tarnish his gem and send the game into extra innings, but his teammates had his back and the Tigers won on a Trent Turner RBI single in the 11th inning to beat the Rebels for a second time this year, this one by a score of 2-1.

Bowlan blew fastball after fastball by the Rebel bats, living in the mid-90s with his fastball and keeping hitters off balance with a hard slider and a good change up. He kept them off of the scoreboard for the majority of the night.

Bowlan yielded just four hits, and though Ole Miss squared up a couple of his pitches and sprinkled in a couple of base knocks, it couldn’t figure out the power right-hander. Tate Blackman got a two-out base hit in the sixth inning, and stole second base but the inning ended a pitch later and was the only time the Rebels pushed a man into scoring po-

sition until the ninth inning.

“I mean this as a compliment: That has got to be the best night that he has ever had,” Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco said of Bowlan.

“He was as good as we’ve seen throwing the ball in the mid90s with a breaking ball and really just amazing. We didn’t expect that.”

It appeared for a while as if Bowlan would go the distance and get the win, but he came undone in the ninth as his pitch count rose above 110. He plunked Blackman to lead off the inning and two batters later Colby Bortles tied the game with a double down the left field line that scored Blackman who ran through a stop sign from third base coach Matt Clement on his way home. Bortles was 2-4 and the only Rebel with multiple hits.

“He came out with his best stuff and pounded the zone a lot. His (velocity) was up. His slider was sharp and change up kept us off balance,” Blackman said. “He did everything he needed to do to pitch a great game. Hats off to him.”

Bowlan’s opposition on the hill was senior righty Sean Johnson who allowed a run on a pair of hits in four innings of work. Johnson threw well for

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Second baseman Tate Blackman walks into the batters box during Ole Miss’ game against Baylor on March 3 at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas. Baylor would go on to defeat Ole Miss, 4-0. the brief 48-pitch stint he was in there, but a leadoff double in the fourth inning came back to bite him as Memphis scored a run on a ground ball to third that Colby Bortles bobbled

to give the Tigers a lead they would sustain for the majority of the game.

“I thought he pitched terrific for everything that he has been through,” Bianco said.

“We needed that tonight.”

The Ole Miss bullpen kept it in the game and the lead at a single run. Jason Barber relieved Johnson for an inning then Connor Green worked for 2.2 more of scoreless ball.

Ryan Rolison pitched through the ninth before giving way to Dallas Woolfolk for the 10th after the Rebels tied the game.

Andy Pagnozzi came in for the 11th and surrendered three base hits, the final one coming off of the bat of Turner as he laced a fastball up the middle to end the game.

It was the second game in a row the Rebels were in a fight requiring them to dig deep into their bullpen and their bench. Thirteen position players played in the game.

“You play enough of these games guys get a taste of it,” Bianco said. “I think that is a good thing.”

Ole Miss came out on the wrong side of this one as the timely hit again eluded them.

“It just shows you how much depth we have,” Blackman said. “When we get the opportunity to score people from second, we’ve got to get that timely hit. That’s the name of the game and they did that today.”

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SPORTS

Rebels fall to Georgia Tech 74-66 in NIT semi-finals GRIFFIN NEAL

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Tuesday night’s quarterfinal matchup with Georgia Tech was microcosmic of the 201617 campaign for the Rebels.

Coming into the game, Ole Miss had built considerable momentum with upset victories over Monmouth and Syracuse, beating both on their respective home courts. With an opportunity to capitalize on that momentum, in a nationally televised game, the Rebels faltered, once again.

The atmosphere Tuesday night was electric; the Pavilion was filled to near capacity, rivaling only the arena’s inaugural night January 2016.

Because the contest was part of postseason play, student ID tickets weren’t available.

Perhaps understanding the disruptive impact an engaged crowd can have, head coach Andy Kennedy purchased tickets for the first 1,300 students that showed up for the game.

“What a great crowd, what great energy. Props to the fans for showing out,” Kennedy said. “People that say Ole Miss doesn’t care about basketball are crazy.”

Ole Miss came out of the gate sloppy, committing turnovers indicative of a team that wasn’t ready to play. Georgia Tech opened in a suffocating 1-3-1 three quarter court defense, stymieing the Rebels offense.

The Yellow Jackets defense is

among the stingiest in the nation, only giving up 66 points a night on average.

At the 11 minute media timeout, Georgia Tech led 26-13, largely because of an 11-0 advantage in fast break opportunity. The first half lead ballooned briefly to 15, but a quick 7-0 run narrowed the gap, as Georgia Tech took a 39-30 lead into intermission.

“I thought it was one of the worst execution games we’ve had all season,” Kennedy said.

“We don’t have any ball getters—we just don’t get the ball.”

Kennedy cited the 13-6 deficit on lose balls as a potential reason for defeat.

Defensively, the Rebels hodgepodge of schemes manifested themselves on the court Tuesday night. Kennedy’s tendency to switch defenses has largely kept opposing offenses on their toes all season long.

The head scratching part about Kennedy’s defensive ideology is his propensity, or lack thereof, to switch out of a defense- even if it’s working. As mentioned, the 1-3-1 wreaked havoc on the GT offense, and it did again to start the second half. Strangely enough though, Ole Miss switched back into man, giving up a 6-0 run.

Ole Miss spent the first 14 minutes of the second half chipping away at the Georgia Tech lead, cutting it to five with just under six to play. A Cullen Neal offensive outburst and poster jam from Terence Davis

cut the deficit to 6864 with just two minutes to play. But four points is the closest the lead would get, as Ole Miss season ended at the hands of Georgia Tech- losing 74-66.

The Rebels weren’t able to escape their abysmal shooting performance, finishing at 39 percent from the field. Conversely, Georgia Tech hit 51 percent of their shots, including 17 of 20 from the charity stripe.

“Ben Lammers and Josh Okogie have been tremendous for Georgia Tech this year,” Kennedy said. Lammers finished with 20 points and 8 blocks, PHOTO BY: CAMERON BROOKS and Okogie led all Sophomore Terrance Davis reacts to a play during Ole Miss’ 74-66 loss to Georgia Tech in the NIT. scorers with 26 points. Ole Miss finished the season with a 22-14 record and fifth in the SEC. “Georgia Tech is a taldirection. And in addition to this group accomplished. We ented team, and they the immediate impact of trans- got to 22 wins, got to the post proved it tonight.”

Georgia Tech will head to fers Deandre Burnett and Neal, season, and won a few post the NIT Final Four in Madison Ole Miss found budding stars season games,” Kennedy said.

Square Garden, as their quest in Terence Davis and Breein “For us, I’m disappointed now, but as I sit back and look at all to become the 69th best team Tyree.

Replacing Sebastian Saiz — we went through this season, in the nation continues.

Despite the loss, there is one of the most-beloved and there’s a whole lot to be pleased many a silver lining for the successful players in Rebel his- with.”

Ole Miss possesses a top 50 Rebels. The Dean of SEC bas- tory — will be tough. But Andy ketball garnered yet anoth- Kennedy is a resilient coach; recruiting class and the continer 20 win season. Ole Miss, he’s had to replace the likes of ued development of Burnett, picked to finish ninth in the Marshall Henderson, Reggie Neal, Tyree, and Davis. The conference, finished fifth. Ken- Buckner, and Stefan Moody in loss will leave a bitter taste in nedy’s Rebels got back in to the recent years, and with seem- the mouth of Rebel hoops, but not for long. post season, albeit the NIT, the ingly no drop off.

“I’m proud of a lot of things rebels made a step in the right

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